This is an analysis of the poem From California that begins with:
Sunday night in the house.
The blinds drawn, the phone dead....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb dece accc Xfef dXcd XgXg adXd XfXf fbbb ceXe Xbeb efdf Xheh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001 011011 01001001 1011001 1100110 0010101 111101 111111 1010110 010101 011101 110101 01111110 1111001 11001001 1101101 100010100 110010100 110101 011101 01110010 110001 1110010 110101 11100 101101 110101 101110 1000100100 001011 111101 111101 0111001 1111010 110101 1100010 1000100 01010011 010100 1100111 010111 100101 111101 010111 010101 110101 1000010 110101 1010000 111101 010101 111011
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 110
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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